Overview of the platform FitNESS

Steward OUADI , Olivier VITRAC

contacts steward.ouadi@agroparistech.fr, olivier.vitrac@agroparistech.fr

University of Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, UMR 0782 SayFood, Massy, France

EU Erasmus+ Programme (contracts 2017-1-FR01-KA202-037441, 2022-FR01-KA220-HED-000023509)

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Context & ambition

Context

Because the lifetime of food packaging materials is short (less than 6 months), they represent the majority of ♳ plastic wastes.

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  • Their 🏭 production, 🚮 collection and ♻️ recycling is also impacting the 🌱environment.

  • They are essential to the 🧃preservation of food, ⛑️food safety and 🥡 food convenience.

  • Coercive ⚖️ laws : 🚫Single Use Plastics Directive (EU) 2019/904/EC, ⛔ French anti-waste law N°2002-105...

  • None of the proposed lecture contains the 🔢 solution, but the platform FITNess provides the only 💡 sensible answer to this 🚩complex issue.

It is necessary to educate oneself, to complete one's education on these complex issues and to mobilize scattered and interdisciplinary knowledge.

As most of the contributors are also scientists and researchers, last results from research are presented as well as more standard concepts.

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Overview

FitNESS stands for "Food packaging open courseware for higher education and staff of companies"

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FitNESS Pillars

  • A ✅ validated content (quality, rigor, and openness) covering all essential aspects of food packaging for two levels (novice and advanced);

  • An 🔓 open-source distribution format, which can be read on any terminal and even as a PowerPoint replacement product for teaching classrooms. All interactive and non-interactive WEB documents are supported and can be run with or without a server.

  • A 🔍search engine adapted to blended-learning education.

FitNESS platform at a glance

FitNESS platform in 54 sec

Welcome screen

Responsive content

Adaptive interface

Hundreds contents for self- or directed- training

Find relations on each page

Keyboard shortcuts

In presentation mode, press ? to list ⌨️ shortcuts. Keys ESC or O gives you access to access to the slide sorter. Note the ⏯️ button to launch the slideshow automatically. The horizontal bar enables to jump to any slide (⏮️⏭️). Arrows ↔︎️️️ ️(content direction) ↕️ (links) appear automatically to adapt to the content.

| EXAMPLE | go to the Syllabus entry Panarama of food packaging

| EXAMPLE | Test it yourself: common>S1>U1.1>part1 (Panorama of Food Packaging)

| EXAMPLE | Watch the available videos (Panorama of Food Packaging)

Main features

It is not PowerPoint, Word, there is no central server, you can download and run it on your PC as us. Use this link to download the entire platform.

FitNESS 2 new features

  • Multiple mirrors: FITNESS 1 (AgroParisTech), FITNESS 1 (Zagreb University), FITNESS 2 (AgroParisTech, work in progress). Others in discussion: Agro Dijon Institute, Michigan State University

  • Non linear training / learning: slides are based on your preferences and answers e.g : example 1, example 2, example 3

  • an AI will guide you to adapt the future content to your knowledge

  • User authentication based on unique key, possibility to recover a previous state

  • Possibility to set up standard tests (no server side) for professionals and students

  • New interactive case studies, including simulation

  • Still open source using GitHub, cloneable, free, no central server, no tracking

A major release is expected every 6 months.

Development timetable

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Content contributors

alphabetic order, contributors from 13 European Institutions

Development team

  • Engineering and design: Olivier Vitrac, PhD., Habilitation, senior scientist INRAE

  • Javascript, HTML5: Steward Ouadi, software engineer AgroParisTech

We are scientists, visit us, watch our last talks

Development team

  • We are part of the modeling and computational engineering group of the Research Unit 0782 SayFood (University of Paris-Saclay, AgroParisTech, INRAE)

We are scientists, visit us, watch our last talks